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N 434 337. Patented Aug. 12, 1890."

Z. I I l I I m I 4 a 1 I 1/ a? l I If i M l I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

ALFRED IV. HANINGTON'AND ARTHUR E. SOUTHWARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOY PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,337, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed October 31, 1839. Serial No- 328,755. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knownthat we, ALFRED W. HANING- TON and ARTHUR E. SOUTHWARD, both of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Puzzles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The puzzle is an improvement in the wellknown pig and-clover class.

Broadly stated, it comprises a series of pens inclosed by a gated wall which is surrounded by an unbroken wall and a number of balls or spheres adapted to pass through the gates of the inner ,wall and enter the pens. The pens by preference represent the various cities contending for the \Vorlds Fair, each pen having thelname of a city produced thereon, and the puzzle is adapted to be so manipulated that the operator will with difficulty be enabled to group all the balls or spheres within the pen bearing the name of thecity which he or she favors as the best locality for the fair. n

The invention consists in the novel con struction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the puzzle, parts being broken away; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

In carrying out the invention a base-plate 11 is employed, preferably circular and provided with a marginal perpendicular flange 10. Upon the base-plate 11, a slight distance from the marginal flange 10, a perpendicular wall 12 is located concentric with the outer flange 10, in which wall a series of openings or gates 13 is produced, and upon the said base-plate within the wall 12 a series of pens 14. is formed, which pens may be of any desired number, preferably corresponding with the number of the principal cities contesting for the location of the fair. These pens are ordinarily made circular, as illustrated, and

covered at the top, each pen being provided in its side with a gate or opening 15. The gates or openings of the pens are so arranged that no two openings will be opposite each other, and the said pen-openings are further arranged so that the openings will not be conveniently adjacent to the openings or gates 13 of the wall 12. Upon the top of each pen we preferably designate the name of the city which that particular pen is intended to represent. In connection with the device above described a series of balls 16 is employed. These balls are preferably five in number, as illustrated; but the number may be increased or diminished without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In operation, the operator having decided upon a particular city for the location of the Worlds Fair, the balls beinglocated in the space intervening between the flange 10 and the wall 12, so manipulates the device as to cause all the balls to pass through a gate or gates of the wall 12 and enter the gates of the pen in which he desires them to be inclosed.

WVe desire it to be understood that while the pens are illustrated and described as having a top, said top may be omitted, if desired, in which event the name usually produced upon the top may be placed upon the floor of the pen.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The improved puzzle consisting of the flat base-plate 11, having the unbroken perpendicular outer flange or wall 10, the inner gated wall 12, arranged parallel to and at a short distance from such outer wall, a series of independent pens 14, surrounded by said gated wall and having openings no two of which are opposite each other, and a series of balls having less diameter than the openings in the inner wall and the pens, as shown and described.

ALFRED W. HANINGTON. ARTHUR E. SOUTHWARD. Witnesses:

ROBERT A. SOUTHWARD,

RORT. E. HANINGTON. 

